Motivational Quotes

Work

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Work

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Mccarthy, Mary

For a woman to get a rewarding sense of total creation by way of the multiple monotonous chores that are her daily lot would be as irrational as for an assembly line worker to rejoice that he had created an automobile because he tightened a bolt.

Stern, Edith Mendel

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

Milsap, Ronnie

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Lombardi, Vince

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Baudelaire, Charles

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Henry J. Kaiser

Better to burn out than rust out.

Young, Neil

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in --that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Mother Teresa

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If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Nash, Ogden

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.

Mortimer, John

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

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As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

Morrow, Lance

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.

Morris, William

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Waitley, Denis

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The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

Salk, Dr. Jonas

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Keller, Helen

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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

Picasso, Pablo

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Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Landers, Ann

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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Morita, Akio

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

Cato The Elder

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Butler, Samuel

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.

Bible

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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?

Marquis, Don

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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We take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Calloway, Wayne

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Hard work is the key to success, so work diligently on any project you undertake. If you truly want to be successful, be prepared to give up your leisure time and work past 5 PM and on weekends. Also, have faith in yourself. If you come up with a new idea that you believe in, don't allow other people to discourage you from pursuing it.

Lazarus, Charles

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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

Mitchell, Warren

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Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

Hubbard, L. Ron

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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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By the work one knows the workmen.

Jean De La Fontaine

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Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

Hal Lancaster

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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Baldwin, James

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In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Wilde, Oscar

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Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

Diane Ackerman

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Auden, W. H.

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Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.

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A man grows most tired while standing still.

Proverb, Chinese

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Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure.

Farrar, Frederick

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Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Ford, Henry

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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Hill, Napoleon

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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem